Last weekend Amazon smells echo to select Echo and warns that they must now agree to make their voice recordings feel the company’s cloud for processing. E -mail was sent to users with the Donuss voice record settings allowed on their Echo or Smart Display speaker to ensure that their commands are processed locally on the device; From March 28, however, this setting will no longer be available and all recordings will be processed in Amazon data centers, the company confirmed Techrepublic.
At the date of the limit value, any echo that is still enabled will automatically switch to Don records, which means that voice commands will be transmitted to the Amazon cloud for processing, but then deleted. Also, any previously stored voice recording and Alexa’s voice ID – a function that recognizes the voices of individual users to provide personalized centers – will be deactivated.
In his e -mail, Amazon said that the decision to interrupt voice records was made to “expand Alex’s abilities using generative AI functions that rely on the power of Amazon Secure Cloud”. This shows that Amazon collects more voice data to improve AI training and improve its intelligent speaker technology.
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Techrepublic asked Amazon for confirmation and the spokesman returned the boiler board that said that the company “focuses on personal data protection and control tools that our customers most use and work well with Generative AI experience.
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This message came just a few weeks after Alexa +’s revealing, the Amazon version of the Amazon digital assistant. Alexa+ set up to start this month and takes data from home cameras, e -mails, personal calendars and others for providing intelligent resorts.
The Amazon Devices, which focuses on Alexa’s hardware, is not beneficial in recent years and, according to 2017 and 2021, is reportedly losing $ 25 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. Apple Siri, Gemini Gemini and Chatgpt Gemini Gemini and Chatgt could be the key to long -term survival of Amazon on the intelligent assistant market.
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E -mail dream for echo users of the steles of voice recordings will be encrypted during transit and that Amazon Cloud has been “designed with security protection layers to safely information”. Since Amazon is a vocal command record, some users with new ASY settings may be.
In 2023, Amazon agreed to pay $ 25 million for civil sanctions for indefinitely storing children’s recordings Alexa and violates the laws on the protection of children’s personal data. In the same year, the Amazon Ring was fined $ 5.8 million after the investigation revealed that employees and suppliers had unlimited access to private customers’ video.
Amazon also faced the will for silent storage of Alexa recordings by default, the American senator publicly questioned Jeff Bezos about practice – five years after the release of the first echo.
Doness voice record settings were only available to users based in the USA with Echo Dot (4 Gen), Echo Show 10 or Echo Show 15 set to English. Despite the fact that they affect a limited number of users, those who are particularly aware of safety and use their devices solely for offline basic activities are considered to be a compromise on privacy after the purchase of a product they considered to be confused with their safety needs.